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What were the prisoners doing in the concentration camps Buchenwald?
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Most prisoners at Buchenwald were forced laborers in local armaments factories. Prisoners were also used as test subjects for medical experiments at Buchenwald, which resulted in a large number of deaths.
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What were the conditions of concentration camps?
it was horrible u had no food and u were beat to death if u wrent doing as u were told
How is Elies arrival at buchenwald different from the arrival at Auschwitz?
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How many concentration camps were there in World War II?
Many of the camps had satellite camps, some of which functioned for only fairly short periods of time. The Wikipedia article - see below - gives the names of the main camps and some information about the satellite camps.
Why were they thrown in the concentration camps?
Most of the people sent to the concentration camps and death camps during the Holocaust were Jews. But other groups of individuals sent to the camps included homosexuals, gypsies, political opponents, those who hid and helped Jews, blacks, and resistance workers.
What other camps besides concentration camps were there?
There were extermination camps. These were where the Jews were sent to be gassed in gas chambers. The young children, elderly, and most women were sent straight to the extermination camps. Young, fit men worked at the camps doing things like cremating the gassed Jews in massive furnaces etc. When the men were too old or had no energy left in them they were too sent to the extermination camps.
Wikiplidi on what prisoners did in concentration camps?
Prisoners in concentration camps did not have lives that were free. They starved, got sick, fell ill from exposure, wasted away and some died right on the spot when they were doing slave work. The only thing they could do was sing together, talk, pray and try to survive. Some were even killed just for talking, singing and praying.
What was like in the concentration camps?
it was really horrible for the people who went there. They had to do slave jobs and were killed if they stopped doing a job for even 1 minute. most people were gassed in the gas chambers and lots of people died in the concentration camps.
Was there any good in the concentration camps?
Yes for the germans because with the labour workers doing job such as agriculturing making raw materials
What happened to the people that were taken to the concentration camps?
They were other forced into doing jobs for the Nazis, but if they weren't physically capable of doing so, they were either shot, or poisoned in false showers.
How many Jewish children escaped from the concentration camps in the Holocaust?
There isn't an exact number for Jewish children escaping the concentration camps. Children, the sick, and the elderly were the first to be sent into the gas chambers (killed) because they were of no use to the Nazis; they weren't capable of doing heavy work.
What were the conditions of concentration camps?
it was horrible u had no food and u were beat to death if u wrent doing as u were told
How is Elies arrival at buchenwald different from the arrival at Auschwitz?
there no answer & stop doing you homework on the internet
How many concentration camps were there in World War II?
Many of the camps had satellite camps, some of which functioned for only fairly short periods of time. The Wikipedia article - see below - gives the names of the main camps and some information about the satellite camps.
Why were they thrown in the concentration camps?
Most of the people sent to the concentration camps and death camps during the Holocaust were Jews. But other groups of individuals sent to the camps included homosexuals, gypsies, political opponents, those who hid and helped Jews, blacks, and resistance workers.
What other camps besides concentration camps were there?
There were extermination camps. These were where the Jews were sent to be gassed in gas chambers. The young children, elderly, and most women were sent straight to the extermination camps. Young, fit men worked at the camps doing things like cremating the gassed Jews in massive furnaces etc. When the men were too old or had no energy left in them they were too sent to the extermination camps.
What was daily life like at Sobibor Death Camp?
At most of the extermination camps (as opposed to ordinary concentration camps) there was almost no 'daily life'. At Belzec the newly arrived Jews and Gypsies were gassed as soon as possible after arrival. The rail transports were timed in such a way as to avoid the need for much accommodation at the camp. (Occasionally, there were bottle-necks and the victims had to spend some time, seldom more than 24 hours, at the camp). One of the more revolting features of the Holocaust was the fact that some Jews were forced to help cremate or bury the corpses. These men did live at the camp. Note that there are only two (!) known survivors from Belzec, while at least 440,000 victims were murdered there. They were death camps - life was all but unbearable.
Why were concentration camps used?
I believe you are referring to the concentration camps in which the holocaust played a major role during, and before the second world war.Concentration camps like Dachau, Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen and the infamous Auschwitz were camps which held people who were Jewish, Gypsy, Homosexual, Communist, Slavas well as other minority groups who were hated by Hitler and the Nazis during that time (1933-1945).Mass exterminations occurred whereby millions of these people were killed by means of starvation, gassing, shooting, and even 'medical' experimentation.About 6 million Jews alone died as a result of the Holocaust. In 1941-1945 some concentration camps (the extermination camps) were holding non-stop executions around the square clock to keep up with the number of people arriving.The inmates were told to go to the shower block when they got there however when they went in there they were locked in and gassed; then there bodies were burnt.AnswerThe first use of a "Concentration camp" was during the South African, or Boer War, 1899 to 1901. The British used the method of rounding up the women and children of the Boer fighters, and holding them in barbed wire camps. The idea was to force the Boers to give up, to get their families back. It didn't work. The Boers were fighting a guerrilla war, and the British wanted to deprive them of food and shelter ... And yes, it did work.The English did succeed in winning the war by this method. With their Australian and Canadian volunteers they were not able to win it by fighting the Boers but by demoralizing them through starving 26,000 Boer women and children, and up to 40,000 black farm workers and their families. It was so much more than just depriving them of food and shelter!Unfortunately, the world is not very aware of these facts. This situation was so bad that Emily Hobbhouse had to make England and the rest of Europe aware of what the British were doing in South Africa in the name of Imperialism and gold greed. The concentration camps were only stopped after continued pressure from the rest of Europe.The war and the tactics used was the most embarrassing and costly war Britain had ever fought, and ironically, one of the Boer generals, Gen. Louis Botha, became the first Prime minister of South Africa in 1910, only 7 years after the war.It is estimated that more than 30% of all Boer women and children died in the concentration camps; and this incredible "Holocaust" in South Africa that had a huge impact on the Boers as a nation, not just in numbers, but internationally unrecognised emotional scars for decades there after! So if you want to know whether it worked; it was probably more effective than the Holocaust under the Nazis!['30% of all Boer women and children'. The usual figure quoted is 27,000 Boers out of a total of 126,000 Boer prisoners in concentration camps perished. That is about 21%, which is shocking, but it's not 30%].___Concentration camps were basically camps Adolf Hitler made to hold his prisoners. He would kill the women and children, and worked the men to death.Nazi concentration camps (and others) were beyond the scope of the rule of law. For example, SS men could not be tried by ordinary courts for killings that they committed 'in the course of their duties'. They were subject only to SS rules and discipline.
